Human rights as battlefields : changing practices and contestations / Gabriel Blouin-Genest, Marie-Christine Doran, Sylvie Paquerot, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blouin Genest, Gabriel, 1983- editor.

Doran, Marie-Christine, editor.

Paquerot, Sylvie, editor.

Series:

Human rights interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Political aspects.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

xviii, 288 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

Contents:

Introduction : Becoming human rights subjects through new practices ; Human rights as battlefields : power relations, translations and transformations : a theoretical framework / Gabriel Blouin-Genest, Marie-Christine Doran, and Sylvie Paquerot

The gender of human rights : the French debate over "les droits de l'Homme" / Charles Bosvieux-Onyekwelu

The right to water : the political function of human rights as an expression of the contradictions in globalization / Sylvie Paquerot

Politics of neutrality, human rights and armed struggles : the Turkey example / Ozan Kamiloglu

Child prisoners, human rights, and human rights activism : beyond 'emergency' and 'exceptionality' : an Australian case study / Judith Bessant and Rob Watts

Who is a child? The politics of human rights, the convention on the right of the child (CRC), and child marriage in Nigeria / Olabanji Akinola

Forcibly sterilized : Peru's indigenous women and the battle for rights / Ñusta Carranza Ko

Politicization of rights-based development and marginalization of human rights from below : the case of maternal health rights in India / Surma Das

Indigenous peoples in Chile : contesting violence, building new meanings for rights and democracy / Marie-Christine Doran

Improving HIV/AIDS drugs access : a genealogy of the human right to health from below / Gabriel Blouin-Genest and Mikey Erb

Internet access as human right : a dystopian critique from the occupied Palestinian territory / Fabio Cristiano

Conclusion : Changing human right practices and the battlefields of world politics / Gabriel Blouin-Genest, Marie-Christine Doran, and Sylvie Paquerot.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3319917692

9783319917696

OCLC:

1031456651